Caleb Orozco has reported an increase in violent threats during a four-day court case that debated Belize's sodomy laws.

Orozco, chair of United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM), is campaigning to amend Section 53 of the Laws of Belize, which states ‘every person who has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any person or animal shall be liable to imprisonment for ten years.’

Recently, author Jennifer Finney Boylan commented about her transgender experience: ‘After all these years, my own identity has wound up less altered than I had expected. It should not have been a surprise, perhaps, but the most shocking revelation after 10 years in the female sex is that mostly I am the same person I always was, gender notwithstanding.’

The professional sports world has been waiting for a Jason Collins moment – a gay athlete currently playing in a major league to come out publicly. What you may not know is that the subtext is that it was hoped the moment would star an African American male.

The African American community, let alone the sports world, desperately needed an openly gay, current, male, professional player.

I remember one of my tutors looking at my CV and noticing I’d written for Gay Star News before starting my journalism course and saying: ‘I assume you’re gay.’

The response I felt was of much annoyance – not because I’ve been in a relationship with a woman for the past two and half years – but for the narrow mindedness displayed by another straight person only a decade or two my senior.

Another former professional athlete came out last week – 6ft 7ins Jamaican-born NFL offensive tackle Kwame Harris.

With news of LGBT equality in the news daily, one may wonder why this is news at all. But it is. The world of sports is quickly becoming the last closet, where gays and lesbians hide their sexual orientation. In a homophobic testosterone-driven sport, like American football, Harris concealment is understandable.

Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has pardoned an allegedly gay man who was sentenced to jail for sodomy.

Bello Magaji, a former military officer, was sentenced to five years imprisonment for allegedly raping four male teens.

Magaji was one of a dozen convicts who had earned the president’s pardon after a Council of State meeting, and it is unknown what he did to earn it.

While it is unknown how old the students were, it is understood they were under the age of consent for heterosexual sex, 21. When giving evidence, one of the teens was 17.

During the third meeting of a consultation on Trinidad and Tobago's constitution, calls for decriminalizing homosexuality and enshrining LGBT rights were strongly opposed.

Opponents of equality such a move would lead the country to disaster and an 'end of the human race'.

At the meeting on 10 March, the Trinidad Express daily reported that an unnamed man called for enshrining women's and LGBT rights in the Caribbean nation's consitution.

Allies are a critical piece of the puzzle in the fight for LGBT workplace equality.

It is a testament to the evolution of allyship in the workplace that the casual uttering of anti-gay views completely unacceptable in today’s corporate culture. It is almost impossible to imagine a gay slur being said in the majority of US, Canadian or European companies today.

Singapore will not repeal the anti-sodomy laws that criminalizes gay sex, affirmed Kasiviswanathan Shanmugam, Singapore’s law minister, to an influential Christian group.

According to the reports from LoveSingapore’s Facebook page, a group network of 100 churches, the minister attended a meeting with its leaders to discuss LGBT rights today (18 February).

An amazing 60% of London’s women and 23% of the UK capital’s men either have had or would have a same-sex experience.

That means almost 42% of the city’s population are in to gay sex.

It’s the shock figure coming out of a Time Out survey which also reveals 80% of Londoners watch porn, three quarters think they are better than average in bed and half would sleep with their best friend.

Two of the world's leading human rights watchdogs have demanded India scraps its 'archaic and discriminatory' laws against gay sex today (12 February).

Amnesty International and Humans Rights Watch today urged the Indian government to repeal laws including section 377 of the penal code which criminalizes same-sex relations.

Indian president Pranab Mukherjee signed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance 2013 on 3 February, reforming many of India's old colonial-era laws on sexual violence, but did not repeal section 377.

As I celebrate Black History Month I’d like to recognize one of my indigenous West African ancestral religions that's not homophobic – even if some of the practitioners are.

To the disbelief of many – it's Voodoo (also sometimes called Vodou, Vodoun or Vodun).

Haitian Voodoo is an ancestral folk religion whose tenets have always been queer-friendly, accepting people of all sexual orientations and gender expressions.